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Where's the logic? Is it really logical to believe that a signed agreement with Iran to stop their nuclear program will stabilize the Middle East? Iran has already successfully destabilized the Middle East. Iran masterfully manages "circular conversations" with the Obama administration to delay, postpone and feigned interest in these talks while gaining more power and territory supporting and financing terrorists. These groups mirror the same rhetoric as President Obama: seek, kill and destroy. The difference is terrorists believe in their cause and do so through barbaric and inhumane methods. The U.S. is very generous with our enemies, providing announcements on our...

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Where's the logic?Is it really logical to believe that a signed agreement with Iran to stop their nuclear program will stabilize the Middle East?Iran has already successfully destabilized the Middle East. Iran masterfully manages "circular...

CHESAPEAKE — FBI Director James Comey warned Thursday about a "drift" taking place that could make law enforcement agents unable to gather information from many cellphones even if they have a valid court order to do so.
Because of technological...

If you're looking for a last-minute Christmas gift, a book by a local attorney might be a good choice.Chad Green — a York County lawyer, licensed captain and commercial waterman — and co-author G. Tom Ward have written "The Crown &...

Editor's note: "DP Buzz" is an interactive feature of the Daily Press Opinion Page. We email weekly questions on issues and topics affecting Peninsula-area citizens. Each week, subscribers can choose whether to weigh in or not with a short...

The Senate Intelligence Committee's report detailing the CIA's so-called "enhanced interrogation" program offers all thoughtful Americans an opportunity to shine a light on a troubling ambivalence.
We like to think of ourselves as a special...

A boondoggleI can appreciate Johnny Lawson's full-throated defense of the Tech Center project (Letters to the Editor, Dec. 18) as he undoubtedly feels compelled to defend his own interests. I would like to remind readers, however, that it was Mr....

Divided by raceOn Dec. 20, a letter declared that "until the behavior and attitudes of this black minority change to reflect the values of the black majority, racism will continue." The truth is that black people are constantly associated...

Nearly two thirds of Virginians approve of U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State, according to a statewide survey released today by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University.
The survey found 63 percent of...

As a United States-led coalition launched military strikes against the Islamic State group Tuesday, professors at local universities with experience in foreign policy and defense weighed in on the volatile situation in the Middle East.
The U.S. and...

Thirteen years ago, a group of 19 men planned and executed one of the deadliest and most audacious attacks carried out on American soil. These terrorists hijacked four commercial aircraft, crashing three of them into prominent symbols of our economic...

Others at fault, tooRe: "A clear threat, but ...," Aug. 25.I feel that the writer should have added to the litany of what he considers errors made by Democratic presidents, those made by two Republican presidents: Ronald Reagan and...

Twenty minutes before his first collegiate start, Virginia Tech's Brian Welch thought nothing about football. Rather, he sat motionless in his locker stall and stared at an American flag.
Earlier, associate athletic director John Ballein had asked...

Brian Welch was 6 years old when terrorists killed his father, Army Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth Welch. "He's the greatest man I never knew," Brian says. Last week, a Navy SEAL team killed the world's most notorious terrorist, Osama bin...

Nov. 3, 1984 — Virginia 27, West Virginia 7. En route to their first bowl bid, the Cavaliers earned their first national ranking in 32 years by manhandling the No. 12 Mountaineers in Morgantown. West Virginia had just defeated Boston College ( Doug...

YORK – General Douglas MacArthur spoke of West Point when he tied athletics and military leadership by saying, "Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that upon other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory."
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Australia will send more troops to Iraq to help train local security forces in their battle against the Islamic State group, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Tuesday. The deployment of 300 Australian troops to the Taji military base north of Baghdad is...

Zineb El Rhazoui was vacationing in her native Morocco on Jan. 7 when two gunmen allied with an Islamist militant group burst into her Paris workplace, the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and killed 12 people while injuring others.
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Conservative U.S. politicians banned from traveling to Venezuela by socialist President Nicolas Maduro are taking the restriction as a badge of honor. Maduro laid out a series of measures against U.S. diplomats and tourists Saturday night, including a...

As "Jihadi John," he was a terrifying figure, his identity concealed by a black mask, his threatening tone backed up by his oversize, serrated knife and his willingness to use it in the name of Islamic State and its self-declared caliphate....

An Egyptian court declared Hamas a "terrorist organization" on Saturday, further isolating the blockaded rulers of the Gaza Strip once openly welcomed by the country's toppled Islamist-dominated government. The ruling is unlikely to have any...